All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie script
By: Lewis Milestone
Date: 1930
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front. The Greatest Films. Available online at http://www.filmsite.org/allq.html (accessed February 14, 2003), 3–5, 7–8.
About the Artist: Lewis Milestone (1895–1980) was born Lev Milstein in Kishinev, Russia, and immigrated to the United States just before World War I. Milestone got his early training in film during the war when he enlisted in the U.S. Signal Corps and worked as assistant director of Army training films. After the war, he went to Hollywood, to eventually become a film director. He won his first Academy Award in 1929 and his second in 1930 for All Quiet on the Western Front. His later films include Of Mice and Men (1939), The Purple Heart (1944), and Awake in the Sun (1945).
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1930's The Arts Primary Sources
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